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 1920 - 2006 (85 years)
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| Name |
Norwood Albert Hart |
| Birth |
29 Jul 1920 |
Peoria, Ill  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
27 Feb 2006 |
Boca Raton, FL |
| Person ID |
I5890 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
2 May 2008 |
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| Notes |
- after graduating from Depauw University Norwood Albert Hart served as an Army officer, as a 1st Lt., towards the end of World War II, but was stateside in the food procurement field, the vocation of his father.
He was nearing the completion of an MBA from Harvard through the Army when his wife, Jean, became pregnant. He then left the Army to return to Chicago where he worked for his father about 10 years at the South Water Market as a produce wholesaler. This was mostly to aid his father in the business since his older brother, Albert D. Hart, Sr., had pursued another line of work.
Realizing that remuneration from this job was not commensurate with his educational background, he worked as a business machine salesman for many companies, including "Electrofile" and "Underwood Typewriter", and "Acme Visible Records", each being bought out by a larger company. His products were forerunners of computers, doing many of the same things databases on computers did later. The biggest problem he faced in his career was constantly competing against IBM. Eventually, he became too old in the eyes of his last employer and retired at age 53. The irony is that his father-in-law, Ralph Eaton Lidster, invested heavily in IBM during the depression. Part of the money from those investmests were what cushioned Nord's retirement years.
Electrofile machine
Nord was a musician who played saxophone and clarinet in high school and college. He later joined and often led many bands in the Chicago and South Florida areas, quitting only when macular degeneration of his eyes prevented his reading music. It was one of the greatest disappointments of his life giving up that life-long love.
Jean and Nord lived at 9646 S. Hoyne in Chicago, and then at 10120 S. Hoyne. Then they moved to Deer Creek Country CLub Blvd in Deerfield Beach, Fl.
Norwood Hart family Norwood Albert Hart and Norwood Alan Hart(top), Jonathan, Robert, and Jean Young Hart (bottom)
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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